Tall 3D printers under 5000$/€

Hi,

i work in orthopedics and were using a Raise 3d pro 2+ which is fine, but now that we need an additional printer I dont want to buy a 5 year old machine for ~5000€.

The new Pro 3+ however costs 7700€ which is a bit above my budget.

I have looked far and wide for hobby level machines which are totally fine for what we print, but they usually go only up to 400-500mm in Z height, and we need a minimum of 600mm.


So Id like to ask the crowd intelligence: Have you found a normal fdm 3d printer for under 5000€ with a minimum build hight of 600mm?

Cheers
F.

If you have any interest and access to some basic tools you could build your own printer to meet your own specs.

If you don't want such a big project, you could buy a machine that has adequate XY range, controller, etc., and then just extend the Z axis to whatever length you need.

As a point of reference, I built UMMD for about $1200 all-in, IRIC, but I shopped carefully including getting t-slot for the frame from a local scrap yard. It has 300 x 300 x 695 mm print envelope, heated enclosure (50C) to print ABS, coreXY, Duet3D controller, heated cast aluminum bed on kinematic mount lifted by two belts driven by a single, worm-gear dive-reduced NEMA-23 stepper. The bed does not move when the power to the Z motor is cut/lost, so theoretically, prints interrupted by power loss can be resumed. There is no autotramming- it's not needed. The bed doesn't go out of tram once you set it manually (two screws, 1 minute). See the link in my sig, below.

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Ultra MegaMax Dominator 3D printer: [drmrehorst.blogspot.com]